“Because everything we have learned says they want what was being guarded in Shira Forest. What the spirit animals were guarding.” “They were not guarding Saylah,” she answered, taking another drink of water. “Then what were they guarding, Scarlett?” He sighed, clearly growing impatient. “A mirror gate.” “A mirror gate?” he repeated. “Why? When there are at least two on our own continent?” “Because the one in Shira Forest is not just a mirror gate. It is the mirror gate. A doorway between the stars to other worlds,” she said. “And the lock? It is not the lock to the Wards as we have been told.
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